BUILDING A NEW RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE AND MAKING IT OPERATIONAL TAKES 20 YEARS, AT A COST EQUIVALENT TO THE PRICE OF ONE CAPPUCCINO PER PERSON PER YEAR.

If CERN’s Member States approve the project for a future collider, it will take 20 years to excavate the tunnel, construct all the necessary technical infrastructures and develop the detectors required for the experiments before a high-intensity lepton collider (FCC-ee) can be operated. The same infrastructure could, at a later stage, potentially host an energy-frontier proton–proton collider (FCC-hh), opening the possibility of exploring new regimes of physics well into the second half of the century.